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| 2 .\" Copyright 2003-2005 Colin Percival |
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| 26 .\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/bsdiff/bspatch/bspatch.1,v 1.1 2005/08/06 01:59:06 cpe
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| 28 .Dd May 18, 2003 |
| 29 .Dt BSPATCH 1 |
| 30 .Os FreeBSD |
| 31 .Sh NAME |
| 32 .Nm bspatch |
| 33 .Nd apply a patch built with bsdiff(1) |
| 34 .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| 35 .Nm |
| 36 .Ao Ar oldfile Ac Ao Ar newfile Ac Ao Ar patchfile Ac |
| 37 .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| 38 .Nm |
| 39 generates |
| 40 .Ao Ar newfile Ac |
| 41 from |
| 42 .Ao Ar oldfile Ac |
| 43 and |
| 44 .Ao Ar patchfile Ac |
| 45 where |
| 46 .Ao Ar patchfile Ac |
| 47 is a binary patch built by bsdiff(1). |
| 48 .Pp |
| 49 .Nm |
| 50 uses memory equal to the size of |
| 51 .Ao Ar oldfile Ac |
| 52 plus the size of |
| 53 .Ao Ar newfile Ac , |
| 54 but can tolerate a very small working set without a dramatic loss |
| 55 of performance. |
| 56 .Sh SEE ALSO |
| 57 .Xr bsdiff 1 |
| 58 .Sh AUTHORS |
| 59 .An Colin Percival Aq cperciva@freebsd.org |
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